The People's Papers
@peoplespapers.bsky.social
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A research project exploring 1970s activist print culture. Current project: local Manchester newspapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social
A research project exploring 1970s activist print culture. Current project: local Manchester newspapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social
Radio Free People's tapes (via the Liberation News Service, 1971: jstor.org/stable/community.28039451)
December 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Radio Free People's tapes (via the Liberation News Service, 1971: jstor.org/stable/community.28039451)
For anyone in #Oslo next weekend! Come join a "Jul" activist history film night + social <3 www.broadcast.events/events/FREE-...
December 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
For anyone in #Oslo next weekend! Come join a "Jul" activist history film night + social <3 www.broadcast.events/events/FREE-...
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2KZ...
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2KZ...
Thanks again to everyone who contributed to a rich & lively discussion at our event "The People's Papers: Revisiting 1970s Manchester."
The recording is now up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2KZ...
Special thanks to cohosts @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social !
The recording is now up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2KZ...
Special thanks to cohosts @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social !
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Thanks again to everyone who contributed to a rich & lively discussion at our event "The People's Papers: Revisiting 1970s Manchester."
The recording is now up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2KZ...
Special thanks to cohosts @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social !
The recording is now up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2KZ...
Special thanks to cohosts @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social !
Next up: rent strikes, housing co-ops, squatting, communes and more! A housing periodicals appreciation post 🙏
www.instagram.com/peoplespapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social
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November 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Next up: rent strikes, housing co-ops, squatting, communes and more! A housing periodicals appreciation post 🙏
www.instagram.com/peoplespapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/peoplespapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social
New post up! Learn more about Waterloo Place on the @officialuom.bsky.social campus in the 1970s, once home to a whole range of radical political projects and groups.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
New post up! Learn more about Waterloo Place on the @officialuom.bsky.social campus in the 1970s, once home to a whole range of radical political projects and groups.
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linktr.ee/peoplespapers
New post up on instagram featuring Peace News’ 1975 special issue on Manchester and “the growth of a radical community.”
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linktr.ee/peoplespapers
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
New post up on instagram featuring Peace News’ 1975 special issue on Manchester and “the growth of a radical community.”
linktr.ee/peoplespapers
linktr.ee/peoplespapers
Workers’ Inquiry! From yesterday’s session @histmat.bsky.social with @americanwork47.bsky.social @abolisheconomics.bsky.social and others 😍
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Workers’ Inquiry! From yesterday’s session @histmat.bsky.social with @americanwork47.bsky.social @abolisheconomics.bsky.social and others 😍
Thanks to everyone who joined us earlier this week and especially to everyone who shared their experiences of 1970s Manchester! Stay tuned for more✨
Thanks also to our collaborators and cohosts for making this event possible @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social 💗
Thanks also to our collaborators and cohosts for making this event possible @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social 💗
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Thanks to everyone who joined us earlier this week and especially to everyone who shared their experiences of 1970s Manchester! Stay tuned for more✨
Thanks also to our collaborators and cohosts for making this event possible @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social 💗
Thanks also to our collaborators and cohosts for making this event possible @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social 💗
New archival research spotlight up on Instagram! Even featuring its own intro video 😍
Thanks to Rory and Real Time Video for sharing: www.instagram.com/p/DQejjL3jJ1...
Thanks to Rory and Real Time Video for sharing: www.instagram.com/p/DQejjL3jJ1...
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
New archival research spotlight up on Instagram! Even featuring its own intro video 😍
Thanks to Rory and Real Time Video for sharing: www.instagram.com/p/DQejjL3jJ1...
Thanks to Rory and Real Time Video for sharing: www.instagram.com/p/DQejjL3jJ1...
A week from today in Manchester! @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-people...
Learn more about the project here: linktr.ee/peoplespapers
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-people...
Learn more about the project here: linktr.ee/peoplespapers
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
A week from today in Manchester! @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-people...
Learn more about the project here: linktr.ee/peoplespapers
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-people...
Learn more about the project here: linktr.ee/peoplespapers
The Right to Work vs the Fight to Live [the debates of 1970s community newspapers]
October 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The Right to Work vs the Fight to Live [the debates of 1970s community newspapers]
Thanks to everyone who joined us last night at Mayday Rooms and especially all of our wonderful speakers !! They shared such great stories and insights about their experiences with London’s radical local press and community activism of the 1970s 💗
October 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Thanks to everyone who joined us last night at Mayday Rooms and especially all of our wonderful speakers !! They shared such great stories and insights about their experiences with London’s radical local press and community activism of the 1970s 💗
This Wednesday at Mayday Rooms in #London! Join us for a workshop exploring 1970s activist newspapers and print culture: maydayrooms.org/event/archiv...
October 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This Wednesday at Mayday Rooms in #London! Join us for a workshop exploring 1970s activist newspapers and print culture: maydayrooms.org/event/archiv...
As always, you can browse through these materials at the @wcmlibrary.bsky.social or the AIU RACE Centre collection and learn more via their blog post too:
aiucentre.wordpress.com/2017/05/31/w...
aiucentre.wordpress.com/2017/05/31/w...
October 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
As always, you can browse through these materials at the @wcmlibrary.bsky.social or the AIU RACE Centre collection and learn more via their blog post too:
aiucentre.wordpress.com/2017/05/31/w...
aiucentre.wordpress.com/2017/05/31/w...
"It's all happening -- in Moss Side !"
October 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"It's all happening -- in Moss Side !"
It also included other forms of community organising such as the development of parent associations:
October 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
It also included other forms of community organising such as the development of parent associations:
Yet they go on: "However this is not the only purpose of the paper. We will print new and opinion about any topic which we feel would be of interest to people living around here.”
This included:
This included:
October 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Yet they go on: "However this is not the only purpose of the paper. We will print new and opinion about any topic which we feel would be of interest to people living around here.”
This included:
This included:
In their first editorial they write: “In this first issue of Moss Side News are two big articles about the redevelopment and rehousing of the area. We feel that it is extremely important to publish as many facts on this topic as we can discover..."
October 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
In their first editorial they write: “In this first issue of Moss Side News are two big articles about the redevelopment and rehousing of the area. We feel that it is extremely important to publish as many facts on this topic as we can discover..."
As one of the earliest community newspapers, it formed at the very end of the 1960s in connection to the Moss Side People’s Association and especially in relation to the Housing Action Group confronting the redevelopment of the area.
October 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
As one of the earliest community newspapers, it formed at the very end of the 1960s in connection to the Moss Side People’s Association and especially in relation to the Housing Action Group confronting the redevelopment of the area.
📌 Next up in our paper profiles @wcmlibrary.bsky.social, we have Moss Side News! www.instagram.com/p/DPhrTIIAtH...
October 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
📌 Next up in our paper profiles @wcmlibrary.bsky.social, we have Moss Side News! www.instagram.com/p/DPhrTIIAtH...
Interested to learn more about this People's Papers project? Check out a link of upcoming and past events as well as recent blog posts here: linktr.ee/peoplespapers
October 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Interested to learn more about this People's Papers project? Check out a link of upcoming and past events as well as recent blog posts here: linktr.ee/peoplespapers
Did you miss our online webinar earlier this week? You can now watch the recording of the event via @wcmlibrary.bsky.social's Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2UT...
October 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Did you miss our online webinar earlier this week? You can now watch the recording of the event via @wcmlibrary.bsky.social's Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2UT...
Calling all London-based 1970s activist/community newspaper enthusiasts! We'll be at Mayday Rooms on Oct 15th for an archival workshop on the topic and joined by some great folks sharing their own experiences and insights from that time.
RSVP here: maydayrooms.org/event/archiv...
RSVP here: maydayrooms.org/event/archiv...
October 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Calling all London-based 1970s activist/community newspaper enthusiasts! We'll be at Mayday Rooms on Oct 15th for an archival workshop on the topic and joined by some great folks sharing their own experiences and insights from that time.
RSVP here: maydayrooms.org/event/archiv...
RSVP here: maydayrooms.org/event/archiv...
Last up we have Dave Harte sharing about Birmingham!
September 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Last up we have Dave Harte sharing about Birmingham!